Title - In the Night Kitchen
Author: Sendak, Maurice
Publisher: Trumpet Club

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Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre
The child of the story is depicted floating from panel to panel as he drifts through the fantastic dream world of the bakers' kitchen. Entertain Concept
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient)
Accelerated Reader Lexile
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282 2.2 530 Amazon
RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels
Sentences Total Words Different Words
Max Word/Sent 32 Total # of Words 320 # of Different Words 139
Ave Word/.Sent 10 Hi Freq occurs 175 54.7% # of Hi freq words 49 35.3%
% of Long Sentences 20 Low Freq occurs 9 2.8% # of Low freq words 8 5.8%
Subjective Criteria
Illustrations: Some support
Speech Bubbles
Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues
Language: Few descriptive words
Sentences: Some Long/Complex
Text structure: Story/Poem
Concept: Fanciful
Features
Topics
Dreams
Cooking
Imagination
*Home Arts & Food
*Human Body & Health
Low Frequency Words
delicious kneaded measuring milk's milkman morn pouring racket